Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
It’s been over 5 years since the last High on Fire album, the Lemmy-worshipping Electric Messiah. Since then HoF singer/guitarist/resident conspiracy theorist Matt Pike has dealt with health issues, marriage, divorce, and a solo album titled Pike vs The Automaton. Pike vs The Automaton was essentially a High on Fire album, minus HoF bassist Jeff […]
Read More High on Fire : Cometh The StormIt was almost 34 years ago exactly that on a school night my older brother drove me and one of my best friends to the Embassy Theater in Fort Wayne to see Joe Satriani live. He was touring in support of the Flying In A Blue Dream album, and this was my first concert. My […]
Read More Joe, Steve, Mom and MeThe Jesus and Mary Chain have been a staple of the shoegaze/noise-pop community for 40 years, releasing their debut Psychocandy in 1985. Blurry, fuzzy, and noisy, Psychocandy was unlike anything else out at the time. The next album to make such a sonic statement was My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless six years later. Though brothers William […]
Read More The Jesus And Mary Chain : Glasgow EyesTom Hall has been making albums under the moniker Sermons By The Devil for a few years now. “Official House Band of the Apocalypse” is how he describes this all hardware electronic project, and I’d say that description is right on the money. I first came across Sermons back in 2021 with the album The […]
Read More Sermons By The Devil : Baptism Of DesireVampire Weekend are one of those bands that you either love or loathe. They have charm about them, but also a preciousness that turns off curmudgeonly old hipsters that don’t think they’re actually hipsters. On the other hand the band has songwriting chops and intellectually inviting lyrics thanks to singer/songwriter Ezra Koenig. Koenig can make […]
Read More Vampire Weekend : Only God Was Above UsCanada’s METZ arrived in the early 2010s in what seemed like a resurgence in the post-punk community. Along with fellow Canadians Preoccupations(formerly Viet Cong) and the Motor City’s Protomartyr it seemed as if post-punk was getting a 21st century kick in the pants. METZ was the loudest of the three, with singer/guitarist Alex Edkins guitar […]
Read More METZ : Up On Gravity HillAs I figured, my mini vacation was over before it started. Last week I was off Wednesday through Friday, then the weekend as well. That was 5 days in a row for you folks not counting. I had big plans that included working on some painting, recording some music, and just in general getting all […]
Read More Mini Vacation, Digital Delays, Splitting HairsAnother Saturday and Sunday come and gone. Quicker than you can say TGIF, we’re already on the pre-dawn drive back to work. It’s a process as old as time. I’m sure there were cavemen wondering where the weekend went as they were leaving their cave for the rock quarries or something(I bet that Flintstone cat […]
Read More Another Quick Weekend, Pending Totality, Mini VacationMusician, label runner, and all around musical force Alexander Donat seems to always be in a creative cycle. Whether he’s releasing music under the monkier Vlimmer, Fir Cone Children, Assassun, or Feverdreamt; releasing music from other artists as label head for Blackjack Illuminist Records, or brainstorming unique and conceptual ways of releasing music in physical […]
Read More Feverdreamt Returns With New Album ‘Decay Is Present’, Out 4/12; Listen To New Single “The Wallowing(Die Another Time)”There’s plenty of amazing jazz drummers, but for my money one of the most powerful with the most finesse was Elvin Jones. Jones gained notoriety for being part of John Coltrane’s great quartet, along with McCoy Tyner(piano), Jimmy Garrison(bass), and of course Coltrane. Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Philly Joe Jones, Billy Cobham, Rashied Ali, and […]
Read More Mr. Jones’ Takes The Spotlight : Breaking Down Elvin Jones’ ‘Poly-Currents’